The emergence of the individual Slavic languages

After the schism between the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Roman) Christian churches in the 11th century and the beginning of the Crusades, the Church Slavonic language fell out of use in all West Slavic countries and in the western part of the Balkan Slavic region. The only exception was the renaissance of Croatian Church Slavonic in the 13th century. At the end of the same century, the first Czech verses in the local dialect were written; they were the precursors of the rich poetic literature in the Old Czech language that appeared in ... (100 of 7,926 words)